Apartment with a Tropical Garden is a modernist home located in Ljubljana, Slovenia, redesigned in 2022 by Arhitektura.

Description
The renovation of a small apartment for a young professional is located near the city center of Ljubljana, in one of the green modernist neighborhoods that gradually began to surround the city center after WW2. The distinctive quality of this modernist apartment is in its spatial freedom as it only features two load-bearing walls, thus enabling completely arbitrary scheduling of living programs. The simplified ground plan now offers more optimal use of the living space while also clearing the overfilled, unnecessary content of the previous owner.
The client is a young professional, who in his spare time enjoys traveling around the globe, and collecting various local artifacts. While at home he enjoys playing musical instruments and listening to old vinyl records, preferably those with groovy rhythms. The existing apartment was too divided and restrictive for his rhythm of life. By demolishing all the non-load-bearing walls, we formed a blank slate into which we inserted a spatial element featuring a bathroom with a toilet and a kitchen. The result is an apartment that has no hidden corners and closed-off sides. Despite having large glass surfaces, the apartment does not have much light due to its northern orientation. It was additionally taken away by the parapet made between the unheated winter garden and the living room. In ...